Adaptation is not something you impose on a body. It is something the body agrees to.
That decision gets made below the level you have access to. Your system is constantly summing what it receives, the food, the sleep, the state of your digestion, the environment you spend your days in, the people you have to stay alert around, and it resolves all of it into one verdict: is it safe to stand down. Until the answer is yes, nothing you ask of it lands the way it should. You train hard and the session takes more than it gives back. You eat well and the scale ignores you. A system braced for something will not spend on a body it might need to defend.
So the first four weeks are not preparation for the work. They are the work.
We use mobility, recovery, and above all what you eat, to change the answer your body keeps arriving at. Mood settles. Energy stops swinging. Focus holds through the afternoon. And underneath those, quieter and more important, the thing we were actually after: a system that has stopped guarding, and will finally take an instruction. Results will still come thick and fast, it’s just a much smarter approach.